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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Benkeblia, Noureddine,

Titel

Phytonutritional improvement of crops

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell,

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Important Plant-Based Phytonutrients -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods in Human Health -- 1.3 Plants with Potential for Use as Nutraceutical Source and Functional Food Component -- 1.4 Nutraceutical Values of Fenugreek -- 1.5 Coloured Potatoes as Functional Food -- 1.6 Red Wine as Functional Food -- 1.7 Tea as Functional Food -- 1.8 Cereals as Nutraceuticals -- 1.9 Nutraceutical Properties of Wheat Bran and Germ -- 1.10 Barley and Oat as Nutraceuticals -- 1.11 Value-Added Products -- 1.12 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2: Biotechnological Interventions for Improvement of Plant Nutritional Value: From Mechanisms to Applications -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Improvement of Food Nutrition -- 2.3 Improvement of Nutritional Value Through Crop Improvement -- 2.4 Identification of Genes With the Potential to Improve the Nutritional Quality -- 2.5 Genetic Engineering for the Introduction of Nutritionally Potential Genes -- 2.6 Nutritional Improvement Through Recent Biotechnological Advances -- 2.7 Production of Health Care Products -- 2.8 Major Biotechnological Advances in Nutritional Improvement of Plants -- 2.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Nutrient Biofortification of Staple Food Crops: Technologies, Products and Prospects -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Concepts of Nutrition and Malnutrition -- 3.3 Strategies to Enhance Nutrient Intake and Nutrient Content of Plant Foods -- 3.4 Quantitative and Qualitative Modification of Dietary Carbohydrates -- 3.5 Quantitative and Qualitative Enhancement of Proteins and Amino Acids -- 3.6 Quantitative and Qualitative Enhancement of Fatty Acids in Oil Seed Crops -- 3.7 Enhancement of Levels of Vitamins -- 3.8 Enhancement of Levels of Mineral Elements.
• 3.9 Enhancement of Antioxidants -- 3.10 Mitigation of Levels of Antinutritional Factors -- 3.11 Conclusions and Recommendations -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 4: Applications of RNA-Interference and Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) for Nutritional Genomics in Crop Plants -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 RNA Interference -- 4.3 Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) for Biofortification -- 4.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Strategies for Enhancing Phytonutrient Content in Plant-Based Foods -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 What are Phytonutrients? -- 5.3 Which Plant-Based Foods are the Best Known Sources of Phytonutrients? -- 5.4 How Can We Enhance Phytonutrients? -- 5.5 Phenotyping for Phytonutrients at Different Levels -- 5.6 The Future Ahead/Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6: The Use of Genetic Engineering to Improve the Nutritional Profile of Traditional Plant Foods -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 What Are Genetically Engineered Crops? -- 6.3 GM Plant Foods Under Approval for Commercial Utilisation -- 6.4 Socioeconomic Impact and Safety of GM Foods -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7: Carotenoids: Biotechnological Improvements for Human Health and Sustainable Development -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Occurrence -- 7.3 Discovery and Early History -- 7.4 Carotenoids Use in Human Foods and Biotechnology -- 7.5 Use of Carotenoids in Animal Feed -- 7.6 Global Market Situation and Sustainability -- 7.7 Carotenoid Biosynthesis and Function in Plants -- 7.8 Conclusion and Perspectives -- References -- Chapter 8: Progress in Enrichment and Metabolic Profiling of Diverse Carotenoids in Tropical Fruits: Importance of Hyphenated Techniques -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Trends in Biosynthesis of Carotenoids and their Profiling in Plants and Tropical Fruits.
• 8.3 Biotechnological Approaches to Enrich Carotenoids in Tropical Fruits -- 8.4 Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability of Carotenoids From Fruits and Their Products -- 8.5 Techniques to Characterise Carotenoids from Fruits -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9: Improvement of Carotenoid Accumulation in Tomato Fruit -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Metabolism of Carotenoid in Tomato -- 9.3 The Biosynthetic Capacities of the Plastid -- 9.4 Hormonal Regulatory Network of Carotenoid Metabolism -- 9.5 Environmental Regulation of Carotenoid Metabolism -- 9.6 Bioavailability of Carotenoid -- 9.7 Food Omics -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10: Modern Biotechnologies and Phytonutritional Improvement of Grape and Wine -- 10.1 Grape Genomics -- 10.2 Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) and Genomic Selection (GS) of Grapevine -- 10.3 Engineered Resistance to Viruses -- 10.4 Diagnosis of Grapevine Viruses -- 10.5 Phytonutritional Compounds with Biological Activity in Grape and Wine and Their Target Analyses -- 10.6 Wine Quality -- 10.7 Grapevine Genetic Resources- Prospects in Management and Sustainable Use -- References -- Chapter 11: Phytonutrient Improvements of Sweetpotato -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Nutritional Qualities of Sweetpotato -- 11.3 Phytonutrient Improvements of Sweetpotato -- 11.4 Conclusion and Future Perspectives -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12: Improvement of Glucosinolate in Cruciferous Crops -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Glucosinolate Breakdown -- 12.3 Biological Functions of Glucosinolates and Their Hydrolysis Products -- 12.4 Glucosinolate Biosynthesis -- 12.5 Metabolic Engineering of Glucosinolates in Brassica Crops -- 12.6 Glucosinolate Accumulation under Pre-Harvest and Post-Harvest Handlings -- 12.7 Conclusions and Future Prospects -- Acknowledgements -- References.
• Chapter 13: Development of the Transgenic Rice Accumulating Flavonoids in Seed by Metabolic Engineering -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Production of Flavonoids in Rice Seed by Ectopic Expression of the Biosynthetic Enzymes -- 13.3 Production of Flavonoids in Rice Seed by Ectopic Expression of the Transcription Factors -- 13.4 Characterisation of Flavonoids in Transgenic Rice Seed by LC-MS-based Metabolomics -- 13.5 Future Prospects -- References -- Chapter 14: Nutrient Management for High Efficiency Sweetpotato Production -- 14.1 Patterns of Growth and Development and Nutrient Absorption in Sweetpotato -- 14.2 Screening of High Efficient of Potassium Uptake and Utilised Genotypes -- 14.3 Effect of Fertilisers -- 14.4 Balanced Fertiliser Management in Sweetpotato at Sishui, Shandong: A Case Study -- 14.5 Application of Fertilisers Through Drip Irrigation ('Fertigation') -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
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